CoCoRaHs: Capitalizing on Technological Advancements to Expand Environmental Literacy Through a Successful Citizen Science Network
CSU Project #: 5-31101Sponsor: NOAA, National Weather Service (NWS)
Primary Investigator: Nolan Doesken
Start Date: October 1st, 2010
End Date: September 30th, 2013
Objectives:
- Through the use of communications technology we hope to not only improve the experience of current volunteers to help retain them in the project but also to make the project more appealing to younger and more diverse populations.
- Two other important efforts were proposed to more deeply engage some of our volunteer participants: 1) The addition of the measure- ment and analysis of evapotranspiration.
- 2) collaboration with the PRISM Climate group at Oregon State University to help put local current observations of precipitation into a visually interpretable spatial and temporal context.
Progress Reports:
CIRA Themes relevant to this project:
- Promoting Education and Outreach on Behalf of NOAA and the University
- Climate-Weather Processes
